December 4, 2009

Is Google Android a Threat to the iPhone?

The smartphone industry is taking the world by storm. What launched as an online shop for iPhone users to download applications for their iPhones has today created a huge marketplace - an entire ecosystem where developers create applications for the iPhone users and who in turn pay money, thus creating revenues for both Apple and the mobile app developers.

The first Android mobile device platform built on the Linux kernel version 2.6 was soon introduced. This achievement of Open Handset Alliance earned the promoters accolades of others like Sony, Ericsson, Toshiba Corp, and Vodafone who also joined the consortium. Sitting in your ergonomic office chair review can allow you to decompress. The Android basically is a software podium and an operating mechanism especially for mobile devices, which is developed by Google. It permits developers to write a managed code in a language that resembles Java, and it utilizes Java libraries that are developed by Google.

Their latest Android, version 1.5 has been nicknamed Cupcake and will be running the new Motorola DEXT. Is this something to look forward to? Definitely; with the current focus of mobile phones being connectivity, no one knows connectivity better than the folks at Google. They started working on an operating system which was Linux based, and was to be targeted to a range of cell phone manufacturers worldwide. And because the operating system was to be open-source, applications that could be used on compatible handsets could be created.

It seems only yesterday Google released its beta version of Google Chrome the latest addition to Web Browsers with the hypnotic tag line "One bar for everything." The dust on this latest addition to the Google product line has barely even settled and yet Google have done it again with their G1 handset released on 23rd September by T-Mobile. Similarly Android is a threat to not only iPhone but for other mobile software's also, as it being an open source developer driver software, there are more and more features and functions being developed for it with each passing day. Receiving some anger management help will invariably be beneficial. But rather they are phones that utilize Google's very own mobile operating system: Android. This is Google's way of entering the mobile phone market (because they're part of everything else, so why not?). Android phones aren't common yet, in fact there's only one thus far: The G1.

Filed under mobile phone by amauser

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